A billion people live in India - some 350 million of them in extreme poverty. Yet India is also home to some of the world's most advanced high-technology firms, and New Delhi is Silicon Valley East. Several years ago, a computer scientist, Dr. Sugata Mitra, had an idea. What would happen if he could provide poor children with free, unlimited access to computers and the Internet? Mitra launched what came to be known as the hole in the wall experiment. In his personal crusade to overcome the digital divide in India -- the gap between information "haves" and "have-nots" -- Mitra takes his hole in the wall experiment to a fishing village in the rural state of Maharashtra, where he is convinced that computers can bring prosperity to poor, rural areas and provide local jobs.
Directors: Rory O'Connor, Gil Rosselini
Producer: Giulio D'Ercole
Production Company
Globalvision
Release Date
October 1, 2002